Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to the speakers, there will be both decorations and music. The VFW anthem which has just been completed, will be sung to the tune of the Vagabond Song...
...Archbishop speaks the words of the commital, the coffin will be slowly lowered through the Chapel floor into the Royal Vault. After an anthem, "God Be In My Head", by the choir, the "Dead March" from "Saul" will conclude the service...
...against the Italian Embassy in Warsaw last week shouting "Hurrah for Socialism! Hurrah for Ethiopia!" he and his friends were promptly arrested, permitted to cool off for a few hours in jail. Likewise last week Poles glorifying in the Pilsudski everywhere sang Jeszcze Polska Nie Zginela, their national anthem: Poland's not yet dead in slav'ry, She shall reign in splendor! What she lost her children's brav'ry Once again shall render! On, on, ye Legions, where battle rages! Poland shall again be free...
...hand, his 13-year-old son stepped up to the console, took his father's place. Six years later Son Raymond Huntington Woodman became organist at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. He is still there, a goateed, white-haired, 74-year-oldster who has written many a song, anthem and organ piece, played more than 50,000 numbers. Genteel Organist Woodman says: "When I first went into music it was regarded as equivalent to retiring from social life. Many well-known musicians of bad habits and poor principles had so harmed the profession that the public held it in little...
...playing. At a special service in his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop William Thomas Manning told the organists there is a "disastrous" lack of congregational singing in the U. S. The Guild announced the winners of two $100 prize contests: Chicago's Porter Heaps for an anthem, A Thanksgiving for All Created Things, and Scranton's Leon Verrees for a choral improvisation on O God, Our Help in Ages Past. Finally, Guild members united in indignantly rejecting a proposal that they affiliate with the American Federation of Labor...